On 06/02/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Correction:
If another race/group/whatever imposes a rule on themselves then it is
not racism to *refuse to* bend over backwards to make sure what you do
doesn't break their rule.
Um, yes it is, depending on what 'bending over backwards' means in
practice (often that bar is set ridiculously low).
Consider the case where the owner of a business may pass a rule that
none of his staff may wear hats (just for simple uniform reasons).
Sounds reasonable, but in the UK, this was judged racist due to the
large number of Pakistan immigrants that wore turbans, since they had
to wear turbans for religious/cultural reasons, and since it greatly
reduced their chances of getting employment, and hence caused economic
hardship. Similar deal with some jewish people.
I really don't respect this argument you're making here Chris, it's
more or less inherently racist, and your argument that it's all
inherently simply 'PC' is not well founded. We need to have reasonable
discussions about tradeoffs, not simply declare that there is
absolutely no problem and not imply that anyone that anyone that
thinks differently is 'insane'.
I do not see how any sane person could argue that this
will make
Wikipedia higher quality. Not one bit.
Quality is a lot to do with how well you meet the users requirements,
needs or wishes; something that doesn't unnecessarily annoy the users
would be considered higher quality.
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.